By Irene Muniz

After a few drinks, students may suddenly feel an urge to spit out everything their heart desires, including obscene or hateful messages to a “friend” or ex-lover, via e-mail.

Drunk e-mailing now has a solution. Now Google is here to save us once again from making embarrassing thoughts a reality you will regret the next morning.

Mail Goggles, created by Google engineer Jon Perlow, is a new feature within Gmail Labs that tries to prevent drunken users from sending drunken e-mails.

Perlow said in his blog that users who enable this setting will have to answer a few simple math questions in 60 seconds, involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

According to an article on khou.com, a Houston based news website, if your logical thinking skills are intact, Google is betting you’re sober enough to work out the repercussions of sending that message you just drafted.

“Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you’re most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it’s active in the General settings,” Perlow wrote on his blog.

Users can alter the levels of difficulty to adjust them to their lifestyles.

Perlow said he used his past experiences to come up with this idea.

“Sometimes I send messages I shouldn’t send,” he said. “Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night e-mail to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together.”

Laura Duarte, a sophomore psychology major, said she has also been a victim of the urge to send drunken e-mails.

“My first reaction after a night of drinking is to always check the outboxes for my e-mail, facebook and cellphone,” she said. “Once, I sent an e-mail message that said; Subject: I have a crush on you, Message; I have a crush on you. Things immediately got awkward between the guy and me for the rest of the year.”

Amaura Kemmerer, Director of the Office of Prevention ‘ Education at Northeastern (OPEN), said that due to people’s level of intoxication, the new feature on Gmail can help stop impaired judgement that some may have when under the influence of alcohol.

“It’s trying to put in a series of roadblocks that makes it harder for them to automatically do that,” Kemmerer said.

Keith Coleman, Product Manager at Google, wrote on his personal blog that some of the Labs’ features will occasionally break in proficiency.

“I think that it will substantially decrease the amount of drunken e-mails that are sent, but some peoples’ math skills are better than others. Some will be able to beat it. It’s not completely reliable, but it will go far,” Duarte wrote on his blog.